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	Nez Perce
		The Nez Perce are the most numerous group of related tribes that speak Sahaptian languages (see Native American languages).
		The Nez Perce followed an economy based on fishing, especially salmon, and on vegetable staples such as the bulbs of the camas plant, wild roots, and berries.
		In 1855 the Nez Perce made a treaty with the United States, ceding the greater portion of their territory to the U.S. government and receiving a reservation that included the Wallowa Valley in Oregon.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/nezperce.htm (461 words)

	BLM Montana/Dakotas - Lewistown Field Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The flight of the Nez Perce to Canada was an epic journey to escape confrontation with U.S. military forces.
		General Sherman called the saga of the Nez Perce "the most extraordinary of Indian wars." Pressed into a fight by the rash actions of a few vengeful braves, some 750 "nontreaty" Nez Perce fought for their lives in two pitched battles in Idaho, then sought escape from the pursuing Army.
		The Nez Perce campaign was a "Freedom Flight," a life-or-death effort by peaceful people, demonstrably wronged, to escape from their violated homeland to seek distant lands in which they might again live their own lives.
	www.mt.blm.gov /ldo/recreation/docs/nezperce.htm (695 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nez PercE (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Nez PercE[nez pUrs, nA persA´] Pronunciation Key [Fr.,=pierced nose], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Sahaptin-Chinook branch of the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
		Also called the Sahaptin, or Shahaptin, they were given the name "Nez PercE" by the French because some of them wore nose pendants; however, this custom does not seem to have been widespread among them.
		The gold rushes in the 1860s and 1870s, however, brought large numbers of miners and settlers onto their lands, and a treaty of cession was fraudulently extracted (1863) from part of the tribe, confining the Nez PercE to a reservation in NW Idaho.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NezPerce.html (498 words)

	Nez Perce Trail in Montana
		The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Trail, extending approximately 1,170 miles from the vicinity of Wallowa Lake, Oregon, to the Bears Paw Battlefield near Chinook, Montana, was added to this System by Congress as a National Historic Trail in 1986.
		The Nez Perce Indians, composed originally of a number of independent villages and bands, were long known as friends of the whites.
		The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail stretches from the Wallowa Valley of Oregon to the Bear Paw Battlefield in north central Montana.
	www.westyellowstonenet.com /attractions/nez_perce_trail.php (967 words)

	Native American - Nez Perce - Chief Joseph
		The Nez Perce, the largest ethnic group in the Columbia Plateau, were closely related to the Cayuse, Tenino and Umatilla tribes to their west.
		The Nez Perce were also heavily influenced by their Plains neighbors to the east.
		He was never considered a war chief by his people, and even within the Wallowa band, it was Joseph's younger brother, Olikut, who led the warriors, while Joseph was responsible for guarding the camp.
	www.juntosociety.com /native/nezperce.htm (3507 words)

	Nez Perce Indian War
		By the Nez Percé Treaty of June 11, 1855, that tribe of Indians relinquished to the United States their title in and to the area of territory described in said treaty, excepting the large reservation of country defined, in which reservation was embraced the Wallowa valley.
		that war chief of the "non-treaties" arrayed in his war paint, rode through the country, defying the Whites and loudly proclaiming that they would not go upon the reservation, that the country belonged to them, and that they would kill soldiers or citizens who opposed their keeping it.
		Among the Indian slain were the war chief and diplomat Looking-glass, and Tups-sis-il-pilp and Wallitze, two of the three Indian murderers who precipitated the war.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/nezperce/nezpercewar.htm (1993 words)

	Nez Perce Literature
		The affairs of the Nez Perce Tribe shall be administered by a Tribal Executive Committee (NPTEC), consisting of nine members elected by the Tribal General Council.
		The NPTEC is obligated to protect the health and welfare of the Nez Perce people.Ý This means protecting and preserving treaty rights and tribal sovereignty, Nez Perce culture, and the general environment of the reservation.Ý Tribal headquarters are located in Lapwai, Idaho.
		After broken treaties, constant wars, humilating surrender after a 1600 mile march, etc., in 1877 the remaining Nez Perce were scattered from Canada to Oklahoma but never allowed to return to the Wallowa Valley.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /nezperce.htm (733 words)

	Harvard Gazette: KSG professors mediate dispute
		The dispute is a result of federal Indian policies since the Nez Perce fought one of the nation's last Indian wars in 1877.
		The end result, on the Nez Perce reservation and across the West, is that large portions of reservation land are owned by non-Indians.
		The Nez Perce levied a 1.5 percent fee on the project, which is allowed under federal law in order to pay for job training and placement on the reservation.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/01.30/11-nezperce.html (1457 words)

	Nez Percé
		The Nez Percé were based in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
		The name Nez Percé means "pierced nose" and was used by early French settlers to describe those Native Americans who made holes in their noses in order to insert ornaments in them.
		Nez Perce warriors retaliated by capturing Lieutenant Lovell Jerome.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWnezperce.htm (2845 words)

	1st Sgt. Patrick Rogan
		At this time the Nez Perce War had broken out in Idaho, and in July word was received at Fort Missoula that a large party of Non-Treaty Nez Perce Indians under Chief Joseph were coming over the Lo Lo trail into Montana in their efforts to escape from General Oliver Howard’s pursuing army.
		While the main party of Nez Perce began to abandon their village and depart, the soldiers were continually attacked by groups of Indians acting as a rear guard.
		Outnumbered by the Nez Perce, the Seventh Infantry and Montana Volunteers sustained heavy casualties.
	www.friendsnezpercebattlefields.org /Patrick-Rogan.htm (3705 words)

	The Nez Percé War
		A certain Pacific Northwest tribe of Shahaptin stock was dubbed the Nez Percé by French-Canadian trappers, probably because some of the natives sported nose ornaments.
		The background to the Nez Percé War is a lamentably familiar situation.
		Joseph was assured that the Nez Percé would be permitted to return to a remnant of their home country in Oregon.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1549.html (807 words)

	Texts of the North American Indian
		Prepare for war!" The beginning of the war was the act of a boy crazed with the white man's whiskey, avenging the white man's killing of his father.
		Many soldiers threw away their guns, and we got those." (Three Eagles.) THE NEZ PERCES 27 he had not fully gauged the ability of these Indians, nor could he surmise that he was starting on the most remarkable Indian campaign in our history, and one from which he was to withdraw practically defeated.
		For the second time the Nez Perces proved their ability as warriors against trained soldiers, but this was to be no rout such as occurred at Whitebird canon.
	www.edwardscurtis.com /texts/texts_nezperces5.html (2582 words)

	Good Wars
		The backers of World War II as a "good" war are "sickened" by any doubts as to the moral worth of America's four-year military involvement in Europe and the Pacific.
		The number of truly justified conflicts could probably be counted on one hand: the Revolutionary War, the War with the Barbary Pirates, the War of 1812, perhaps the Texas War for Independence.
		War does seem to be the norm: people are far too eager to invade other nations and kill people of no real threat to them.
	home.earthlink.net /~rdmadden/webdocs/Good_Wars.html (1469 words)

	Graves / Tombs & sepulchral monuments / Nez Perce Indian War / Flags / Death - Gallery of the Open Frontier
		Graves / Tombs & sepulchral monuments / Nez Perce Indian War / Flags / Death - Gallery of the Open Frontier
		Graves / Tombs & sepulchral monuments / Nez Perce Indian War / Flags / Death
		Nez Perce Indian Wars, graves of soldiers and civilian scouts killed.
	gallery.unl.edu /picinfo/8305.html (47 words)

	Idaho - NezPerce County History
		During the late sixties and early seventies Nez Perces County was sharing in that tradition from mining to agriculture and stock raising which we have before mentioned in connection with north Idaho in general and this portion of the inland empire.
		Of the reservation lands, 533,500 acres were in Nez Perce, much of this domain being exceedingly rich agricultural land, and its settlement by a thrifty, homebuilding population was fraught with momentous consequences for the future greatness of the county.
		Nez Perces county's political character seems to have undergone a radical change between the campaigns of 1884 and 1886, as the Democrats secured a majority of the offices at this election and returned a majority for Hailey, with the understanding that he represented the annexationists.
	www.usroots.com /~idhistry/nezperce/nezperceshis.html (16034 words)

	Slim Buttes -- Wyoming Tales and Trails
		In the spring of 1877, the order came forth that the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce were to move from their ancestral home in the Wallowa Valley of Oregon to the Lapwai Reservation.
		In the Wallowa, the Nez Perce had for generations raised prized apploosas [from the Palouse River in the home territory of the Nez Perce], cattle, and farmed.
		As the Nez Perce were packing for the move, White raiders stole several hundred of the horses including stud stallions.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /nezperce.html (1650 words)

	Nez Perce Indians spent eight months at Fort Leavenworth
		A plaque erected near the site by the Fort Leavenworth Historical Society traced the story of the tribe from May 1877, when the Nez Perces were ordered to leave their homeland in the Northwest for a new reservation.
		But Sherman disavowed Miles' pledge to Chief Joseph, declaring the Nez Perces should not be permitted to return to Oregon, and lodged instead in the Indian Territory.
		The presence of the Nez Perces created interest in Leavenworth and beyond, and most weekends found the Indians under the curious scrutiny of "excursionists" from miles around.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/leavenwo/library/NEXPERCE.htm (1149 words)

	The Last Days of the Nez Perces - Cameron Trading Post
		In 1855 the Nez Percés, by treaty were given half of their original lands encompassing an area around the convergence of the Washington, Oregon, and Idaho borders.
		The Nez Percés were unique among many Indian tribes in that they were dead shots and their accuracy and unwavering advance forced the soldiers from the camp and into the trees where they began to mount their defense.
		The flight of the Nez Percés was news and there began to be an outcry against the army's brutal tactics, not only from the usual sympathizers in the East, but even close to home.
	www.camerontradingpost.com /nezpercehx.html (5977 words)

	Nez Perce War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nez Perce War was a series of battles between the Nez Perce and the United States government.
		The Nez Perce were led by several chiefs, including Chief Joseph, Chief Ollicot, and Chief Looking Glass.
		The Nez Perce traveled through Idaho towards Montana, fighting the U.S. Army in several battles along the way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nez_Perce_War (301 words)

	JOURNALS and PERIODICALS: Nez Perce National Historic Trail
		"The Jesuits, the Northern Indians, and the Nez Perce War of 1877." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 42: 40-76.
		Chaffee, Eugene B. "Nez Perce War Letters to Governor Mason Brayman," Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Idaho for the Years 1935-1936.
		"The Exile of the Nez Perce in Indian Territory, 1878-1885." The Chronicles of Oklahoma, 56(1978-1979): 450-471.
	www.fs.fed.us /npnht/bibliography/journals.shtml (2483 words)

	PROGRAMS&PEOPLE
		Years later, grief over a divorce led her to examine exactly who she is, this child of a white mother from Kansas and full-blooded Nez Perce father from central Idaho.
		Along the way, she researched and wrote about her Nez Perce history, full of trauma, death, courage, and beauty, while earning a Master of Science in psychology from Eastern Washington University.
		In contrast, one white observer’s account describes “the courageous and almost chivalrous manner in which the Nez Perce conducted their side of the war.” Robbie’s great grandfather Seven-Days-Whipping followed this trail with other warriors of the Chief Joseph band in 1877 in the war that ended all Indian wars in the West.
	info.ag.uidaho.edu /magazine/winter06/robbie.htm (1245 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Wild West \| The Battle of White Bird Canyon: First Fight of the Nez Perce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nez Perce warriors camped somewhere in White Bird Canyon were expert riders, and their hunting skills made them superior adversaries.
		The Nez Perce Dreamers continually visited their relatives at Lapwai, and there, before reservation officials, they argued that since the white man was not going to be around much longer, why listen to his rules.
		The non-Christian Nez Perces did not like the decree, but they were acutely aware that struggling against the U.S. Army was foolish.
	www.historynet.com /we/bl-nez-perce (1217 words)

	University of Wyoming
		Had it not been for his horse, a gift from the Nez Perce Chief Joseph, Chief Washakie said he may not have defeated his worthy Crow opponent in the legendary duel.
		Appaloosas displayed endurance in Nez Perce wars where the "Horse of the Iron Heart" was severely tested.
		Thought to have a history dating as far back as 20,000 years, the legendary war horse of the Nez Perce is one of the world’s oldest identifiable breeds.
	www.uwyo.edu /news/washakie/stallion.asp (451 words)

	The Flight of the Nez Perce
		One-hundred-twenty years ago, some 800 Nez Perce men, women and children journeyed over 1,100 miles across Montana and its neighboring states pursuing freedom from U.S. Indian policy and safety from military action.
		Today, that journey is commemorated by the Nez Perce National Historic Park, a confederation of 38 sites in five states including three in Montana.
		On or near the anniversary dates of the various battles, Nez Perce VFW members conduct memorial services at each site, including a traditional pipe ceremony and traditional dancing.
	visitmt.com /whatsnew/features/nezperce.htm (246 words)

	Northwest Indians
		In western Oregon, these wars usually consisted of raids by the men of one village on the people of another village.
		While the Cayuse War was in progress some tribes nearer the Willamette Valley took advantage of the absence of the many men at the front.
		In 1873 during a conference of various chief and government representatives, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce refused to leave his Wallowa Valley homeland.
	www.oregonpioneers.com /indian8.htm (2298 words)

	GORP - National Historic Trails - Nez Perce National Historic Trail
		This trail route honors the heroic and poignant attempt by the Nez Perce Indians to escape capture by the U.S. Army.
		In 1877, the Nez Perce were forced to leave their ancestral homelands and move to a reservation east of Lewiston, Idaho.
		The hope for a peaceful move to the small reservation at Lapwai, thus ended, and the flight of the Nez Perce began on June 15,1877.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_trail/nezperce.htm (1007 words)

	History Channel Classroom:
		The Nez Perce, whose home was in the Pacific Northwest, were the victims of land greed and Indian removal policies.
		Chief Joseph And The Nez Perce Wars tells the story of a man's lifetime devotion to his people, and their quest to find a home were they could be safe from disease, death, removal, and the American government.
		One of the weaknesses of the Nez Perce was the division among their people.
	www.history.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0174.html (396 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A historical look at the Nez Perce, Native inhabitants of present-day Western Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, who were long respected by their neighbors as a powerful people.
		Bib-Record-Id: 00-00420114 Author: Josephy, Alvin M., 1915- TITLE: The Nez Perce Indians and the opening of the Northwest, by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
		(America's Wars Series) A discussion of the hostilities between European-American Settlers and the Native American population and their impact on both settlers and Indians.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mtygf/county/nezperce_files/nezperce_lists.txt (406 words)

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